Withstanding : Hoopla Series 3
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Once Helen Jacobs delighted in walking the hills, but now she can only get as far as the local shops, and the nature she loves is pressed into the tiny garden she tends.It is here that she ponders the paradox of old age a time of terrible losses and unexpected joys, and then finds herself moving one last time to a room with a view of the hills she loves.
Helens poems reverberate with the sound of feet walking the slopes of great hills, skipping through leaves and dancing for the love of it. True to form, she ends with one foot stepping off again into the unknown.
A powerful final collection from a much-loved Canterbury poet.
Featured in the 2 May 2016 New Zealand Newsletter.
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